Arguments

lst  list to extract a sublist from

startidx  index of first item for sublist (0-based); if startidx is < 0, 0 is used

nritems   number of items to be copied from lst list; if nritems is < 0, all items after startidx are copied to result list

Return

a sublist of lst starting with index startidx and containing nritems of input list lst;
if lst has not enough items, only the items of lst are copied to result list, no NIL is appended

Example

(vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 3)  => '(3 4 5)
(vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 -1) => '(3 4 5 6 7)
(vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 10) => '(3 4 5 6 7)

Alias

Remarks

index is 0-based